Great Pop Fashions from the 1960s Coloring Book printed both sides of page

Vogue Goes Pop: Coloring Book

By: British VOGUE

Rating: 5 of 5

The Pop culture fashion of the 1960’s is the theme for this Vogue coloring book. Iain R. Webb is the illustrator for this book as he was for the prior Vogue coloring book. He does a lovely job of interpreting the actual fashions of the time into line drawings. Along with each fashion is a particulars of the fashion, the designer as well as odd bits of info (such as how it could be ordered, etc.) This information is generally off to the side of one of the fashion designs. The designs range from fairly simple lines to highly detailed with small intricate parts to color.

The fashions of the 1960’s showed a jump from the cute matching outfits with gloves to wild colored mini-skirts and men’s ware for women all the way to the hippie-inspired caftans that were popular as the decade wound to an end. A number of the models have a Twiggy quality to them, with thin almost young boy figures with eyes with heavy fake eyelashes.

While my preferences in fashion coloring books are from the decades before the pop culture period, I appreciate the fashions that I recall seeing when I was a little girl. As an adult, I now appreciate how the fashions of this period reflected the social changes which were occurring at the time. Women were becoming more free to express themselves and to show the expression in how they dressed.

The one issue I had with the prior book is much better in this one. I did not like the squiggly lines that were placed on the models mouths as I prefer to color the lips in my coloring projects my own way. The few that do appear have more of a highlight look to them rather than the caterpillar look I found in the first book.

This is what I found as I colored in this book and tested the paper with my coloring medium. In the comments section below, I will list the coloring medium I used for testing and for coloring.

93 pages of Fashion Designs from the Pop Culture Period

Printed on both sides of the page

Paper is heavyweight, white, smooth and non-perforated

Sewn Binding (you can snip a few threads to remove a few pages at a time if you wish.)

Designs do not merge into the binding area and do not spread across two pages

Coloring book can be opened to fairly flat for coloring by breaking the spine with some effort.

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper

Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink pens do not bleed through and did not leave shadows on the back of the page.

Colored pencils worked well for the most part. I could get good pigment color and layer the same or multiple colors easily. Blending with a blending stick sometimes resulted in a slightly smeary look rather than a clean blend. Using a liquid blender worked better for me. I tested both oil and wax based pencils with similar results.